To get the most out of this book

The barrier to entry for this book is very low. Anybody with some experience in application development and/or infrastructure operations could use this book to learn about what the Tanzu platform has to offer. However, the reader would get the most out of the book by having some familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized applications. To follow the hands-on instructions given in the book, the reader should also be familiar with CLI commands.

Software/hardware covered in the book	Operating system requirements
Tanzu Application Accelerator	Windows, macOS, or Linux
Tanzu Build Service
VMware Application Catalog
API portal for VMware Tanzu
Spring Cloud Gateway
Harbor
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
Tanzu Application Platform
Tanzu Mission Control
VMware Aria Operations for Applications
Tanzu Service Mesh

The step-by-step instructions given in the book are performed on macOS systems. However, most instructions will work on either Linux or Windows machines without modifications.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

There are places in the book where we have used some sample applications and Kubernetes configurations. Readers may download them using the GitHub repository provided in the following section.